Thursday, August 20, 2009

Ginger beer and picnics

(Link courtesy of my father, who also notes of his Kirkcaldy childhood: "I still remember parents' friend Jim Brindle, the County Librarian, passionately refusing to give her shelf-room. Fortunately Miss Luke, the Burgh Librarian, ran her own independent show!")

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About Me

I have published four novels and two books about eighteenth-century British literature; my latest book is "Reading Style: A Life in Sentences." I teach in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.